Muggulu designs without chukkalu

Simple muggulu without dots for Sankranti

First start with a square as in padi kolam  ,The completed kolam with colours 

Sankranthi muggulu without chukkalu

Draw floral designs on the four sides and at the four corners.

Decorate the floral designs with borders as shown 

White muggu is shown in the image.  It is beautiful as it is

Simple muggulu without dots white design

This is from a collection of Dhanurmasam muggulu I posted during 2012.  Now I have shared again with steps.  A very simple and easy muggu.  The white design is in the image above, if we need colours the colourful muggu has also been shared.  We can try this for Sankranti 

Chukkalu leni kamalam muggulu

Lotus and rose are the flowers usually drawn in muggulu.  I have also used the hibiscus.  Lotus can be a part of our Friday or Varalakshmi Vratham muggu decoration.

Start with a square base.  This is one of the easiest methods to start in free hand muggulu .  Lotus designs are drawn on all four sides.  It will be nice if we draw all the lotus designs from one side.

The more patterns we add the richer the muggu becomes as is evident from the next few images.

If you are drawing for Friday or Varalakshmi Pooja decorate with a kavi border

small white muggulu without chukkalu

The next muggu is a not so easy design, though it is small.  The picture should clarify the central design in particular     A simple border on all four sides completes the muggu

safed rangoli design

Collection of small and easy muggulu designs without dots for Diwali, Navaratri, Sankranti

I have not given the step-by-step pics for these simple muggulu.  Please try them yourself.  Can be part of our collection of daily entrance muggulu for flats.

A star based muggu

simple muggulu without chukkalu

A variation of padi kolam 

small padi kolam with colour

 Quite a small and cute muggu - except for padi kolam and sikku kolam there are few hard and fast rules for this art, sky is the limit for creativity and level of detailing. What is required is time and patience.

Muggulu without dots easy

 We draw just a paisley also at the entrance.  Even this small design is sufficient for our daily purpose muggulu.  I have added colours we can stop at the white muggu level. Above, a triangle and three circles is a common and easy way to start a muggu without dots.  However, usually this is reserved for small designs unlike circular patterns at the centre that can be expanded to infinity, not that this cannot be done but it is rarely the case.

very small muggulu designs

Very small and easy rangoli - Kolam drawn at the entrance is not considered just an art but practised daily with reverence praying for prosperity to Goddess Lakshmi (which I do).  Since it is not treated as just an art form, but as a prayer we make it a point to draw it daily. Once we start drawing daily, we need hundreds of designs to avoid repetition and boredom. With thousands of original designs this rangoli blog should be a sure stop for you to visit and make a note of the designs. 

small flower muggulu designs

 Drawing butterflies is quite easy in rangoli! Just as Deepavali is a community event when all the friends and relatives meet, enjoy, children burst crackers in groups, drawing muggulu for Sankranthi was a community event when we were young and in the town we lived.  My mother was an expert in freehand muggulu and for my grandmother who lived in Vizianagaram any rangoli competition was a cakewalk. 

Small muggulu without dots for Sankranthi

 What would we do without birds and flowers for our muggulu designs

Birds rangoli small and with colours

 Small and intricate design

small round muggu without dots

 Another bird muggu , just like a doodle, I drew it spontaneously

Small cute birds muggulu with colours

Flowers and tendril designs are congruous in rangoli 

small round rangoli without dots

If one may use the analogy of Carnatic music in rangoli art, freehand muggulu are like alaapana where we have complete freedom to explore while melikala muggulu are like neraval that follows a fixed pattern. I should hurriedly add that by no stretch of imagination, I am qualified to discuss classical music.  I have given my opinion as a common layperson.  Whatever knowledge I obtained was from my mother-in-law who was a qualified singer with a melodious voice.  Let us consider that I was just thinking aloud and penned my thoughts.  If there are any errors in the analogy or if you have a different opinion kindly point out.